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DE Three times as many renewable energy plants needed
The share of renewable energies in global energy demand has risen by just 2 percentage points to 12.6 per cent since 2009. Yet the energy transition is critical to achieving global climate targets. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), our energy system must be net zero by 2050, i.e. no more greenhouse gases are emitted than can be absorbed. [...]
Former brickworks pit complex Aegidienmasch Hanover: Creating a planning basis for the future with historical data and today's technology
An old deposit in the city centre of Hanover led to the discovery of a former brickworks from the 17th century. Historical documents show that there was a complex of clay pits here until the beginning of the 20th century. The former pit complex was larger than initially assumed and was gradually filled in. Since then, railway installations have been assembled and dismantled here, [...]
Marine litter
According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), plastic pollution is one of three planetary crises alongside climate change and biodiversity loss. Although numerous bans and restrictions on the use of single-use plastics have already led to progress in over 120 countries, it is estimated that the amount entering the world's oceans could increase over the next two decades [...].
M&P Project
P&M Projektmanagement GmbH and Prinz Immobilien Consulting GmbH are now operating together as M&P Project GmbH with the aim of pooling and strengthening existing service competences - with the aim of implementing a coordinated merger of the two companies' key business areas. With the new company name, M&P Project continues to stand for continuity, [...]
Laboratory studies on microbiological pollutant degradation: Bacteria eat pollutants
MuP Umwelttechnik GmbH in Heidelberg carries out investigations into the microbiological degradation of pollutants in its own laboratories. The following questions are investigated in laboratory studies: Is microbiological degradation potential present at the site? Are the site's own microorganisms capable of degrading pollutants? Can microbiological degradation be improved/accelerated? What environmental conditions do the naturally occurring bacteria need for efficient pollutant degradation? [...]
Nationwide Digital Day 2022
The 3rd nationwide Digital Day is taking place today: With numerous activities, various aspects of digitalisation as well as opportunities and challenges will be examined. For us, one thing is certain: digitalisation and sustainability go together! We see digitalisation as a tool for advancing sustainability on an ecological, social, economic and political-social level. Digital technologies will support the development of sustainable solutions as [...]
Working where others go on holiday
Our drilling and exploratory team and the experts involved in the project often have to work in unusual locations. But one project this year was quite special, especially because of a rather adventurous journey to and from the site for equipment and personnel. Even at the time of the announcement, the subsoil investigations commissioned at short notice by the municipality of Helgoland on Germany's only high seas island [...]
Site clearance for the Kopernikus neighbourhood in Heidelberg
For decades, the so-called PX area, a shopping and service centre of the US Army, was operated near the railway station in Heidelberg. Prior to this, the site had a long history of use. Following the withdrawal of the US Army in 2014, the various buildings were gradually demolished. Following the departure of a grocery store that had been located there in the meantime, work began in summer 2020 to clear [...]
The dinosaur of the year 2021
At first glance, being honoured as Dinosaur of the Year seems like a great thing to many people. But the award, which has been presented by NABU for over 25 years, actually symbolises something negative for the winner. The "Dinosaur of the Year" is a 2.6-kilogram replica of a giant lizard, which is cast from pewter. [...]
Lower Saxony's Environment Minister Olaf Lies commissions GWRA at Dethlinger Pond
The Dethlinger pond near Munster, a former mining pit for diatomaceous earth, was filled with chemical warfare agents during the Second World War and in the years that followed. This old armaments site is now to be remediated following careful planning (M&P Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH) and based on the test opening carried out in 2019. In autumn 2019, in the course of the test opening, 120 m³ [...]
